starve是什么意思？

starve

英[stɑ:v] 美[stɑrv]

• vi. 挨饿，[非正式用语] 饥饿，受饿，[古语] 冻死；
• vt. 使挨饿，饿死；

第三人称单数：starves;

过去式：starved;

过去分词：starved;

现在分词：starving;

例句

• The enemy lay siege to the town in attempt to starve the people to death. 敌人围城, 企图将人们饿死。
• Feed a cold and starve a fever. 伤风宜吃,发烧宜睡。
• Don't starve the kitten. 别饿着小猫.
• They decided to starve the enemy out. 他们决定使敌人受饿而出来.
• You can't see your sister starve without trying to help her! 你不能让你姐姐挨饿而不想法去帮助她!
• It's a hard thing to skulk and starve in the heather. 躲在树林里的挨饿不是一件好受的事.
• When the breadwinner is ill, his children will do anything rather than starve. 大人病了, 儿女们做贼做娼也比饿着强!
• The army intends to take the city or simply starve it into submission. 军队打算占领该城市或干脆截断其粮食补给迫使其投降。
• You have built up a huge property empire by buying from wretched people who had to sell or starve. 你靠从那些不卖房就得挨饿的可怜人手里买下房子后建立起了庞大的房产帝国。
• The most damaging thing the West could do is to starve Russia of new foreign capital. 西方能够祭出的最阴险一招就是不让俄罗斯得到新的外资。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• VERB
  挨饿;饿死
  If people starve, they suffer greatly from lack of food which sometimes leads to their death.
  例句
  A number of the prisoners we saw are starving... 我们看到的一些囚犯快要饿死了。 In the 1930s, millions of Ukrainians starved to death or were deported... 在 20 世纪 30 年代，有几百万乌克兰人饿死或被驱逐出境。
• VERB
  使挨饿
  To starve someone means not to give them any food.
  例句
  He said the only alternative was to starve the people, and he said this could not be allowed to happen... 他说唯一的其他选择就是让人们挨饿，又说这是绝对不允许发生的。 Judy decided I was starving myself. 朱迪认定我在让自己挨饿。
• VERB
  使极其缺乏;使迫切需要
  If a person or thing is starved of something that they need, they are suffering because they are not getting enough of it.
  例句
  The electricity industry is not the only one to have been starved of investment... 投资严重缺乏的不光是电力工业。 The most damaging thing the West could do is to starve Russia of new foreign capital. 西方能够祭出的最阴险一招就是不让俄罗斯得到新的外资。

英汉词典释义

• vt. & vi.
  (使)挨饿, 饥饿
  Because there is no food, the people are starving. 由于没有食品, 所以人们在挨饿。 She's starving herself, trying to lose weight. 她在饿肚子减肥。 I'm starved very much now because I have had nothing at all today. 我现在饿极了, 因为我今天什么也没吃。

英英词典释义

• Verb
  1. be hungry; go without food;
  "Let's eat--I'm starving!"
  2. die of food deprivation;
  "The political prisoners starved to death""Many famished in the countryside during the drought"
  3. deprive of food;
  "They starved the prisoners"
  4. have a craving, appetite, or great desire for
  5. deprive of a necessity and cause suffering;
  "he is starving her of love""The engine was starved of fuel"